No. 18: Furyk drives into the fairway. Woods hooks his tee shot
into the trees. Furyk hits his approach to 12 feet behind the hole. Woods
takes relief from scoreboard, then pitches into the fairway. Woods plays
bump-and-run from 50 yards to 4 feet. Furyk's putt to win stays left of
the hole. He taps in for par. Woods makes par putt.

No. 17: Both players drive into fairway. Furyk hits approach to
10 feet left of the hole. Woods' approach spins back 35 feet. Woods two-putts
for par. Furyk's birdie to win stays right of the hole. He taps in for
par.

No. 18: Woods drives over the trees into the right rough. Furyk's
drive goes into the first cut of rough down the left side. Furyk's approach
goes into the front left bunker. Woods hits punch around the trees to
the rough between two greenside bunkers. Furyk blasts out to 2 feet. Woods
chips 4 feet past the hole. Both players made par putts.

No. 17: Both players drive into the fairway. Woods' approach spins
back 55 feet. Furyk's approach comes up short on the fringe. Woods' birdie
putt grazes the left lip. Furyk's putt from 45 feet for win stayed 4 feet
left of the hole. With rain coming down hard, both players make their
pars.

No. 18: Woods drives into first cut of rough down right side.
Furyk drove into the right rough under a tree. Furyk punched out to the
rough, then hit his approach just short of the green. Woods hit wedge
into 2 feet. Furyk chipped to a foot and tapped in for bogey. Woods made
birdie.

"They just don't understand the game," he said.

At times Woods had the magic of last season, when he won
nine tournaments  including the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship
 and in the spring, when he completed the Tiger Slam by adding The Masters
to his string of major championships.

"I'm very pleased with the moves I'm making with my swing,"
he said. "I was able to hit some good shots when I had to. I hit some poor ones
as well. But more than anything, I'm pleased with the progress I'm making with
my game."

Woods posted four rounds in the 60s to win this World Golf
Championships event for the third consecutive year. He did not dominate. Furyk
shared the lead or held it outright until Woods' final putt Sunday.

But he overcame a two-shot deficit at the start of the
final round and managed to stay alive in the playoff with some big shots and
big putts. Yet he said none was bigger than the 45-foot putt he missed on the
third trip through the 17th hole. It was for birdie and barely missed the hole,
leaving him a tap-in for par.

"I knew I made that bomb," Woods said of his reaction.
"I just don't know how it didn't go in."

Furyk had a big moment on the first playoff hole when he
holed a bunker shot on the 18th, with the ball spinning around the rim of the
cup before dropping. It came after he had mis-hit his first shot in the bunker
and left the ball in the sand.

"It was obviously the exciting part of the day for me,"
Furyk said. "I collected my emotions and hit some good putts the next few holes."

Furyk said missed putts cost him the tournament. He has
six career wins, but none has come in major championships or the World Golf
Championships.

"I think playing in the Ryder Cup tests your nerves more
because you are playing for a team," Furyk said. "The only person I let down
was myself, and I can live with that. I've done that before, and I'll do it
again."

Woods has 29 wins on the PGA Tour, and he's unbeatable
in Ohio. Earlier this season he won The Memorial near Columbus for the third
consecutive time. Then came the lull, where he tied for 12th in the U.S. Open,
tied for 25th in the British Open and tied for 29th in the PGA Championship.

"If you're playing golf courses that are difficult and
your swing is not quite on, you're going to be penalized," he said. "I hung
in there, and then I started putting it back together this week."